Posts from April 2002

French Fries Deadly

Great Caesar’s Ghost! This is possibly the worst news ever: Cancer Risk Found in French Fries! link via Random Thoughts from a Large Head

#fast food #food

Blogger Insider

I am a bit late (surprise!) but here are my answers to another round of Blogger Insider interview questions. This session had me paired with Kristina Pardue of pardueduran.com. Her answers to my questions are here.

#blogging #boston red sox #douglas adams #interviews #luke skywalker #mom #my life #p.j. o'rourke #raiders of the lost ark #stephen king #the empire strikes back

Counters

From Son of Web Pages That Suck: If you’ve got a “real” Web site, and by real I mean a site that gets real traffic, then you don’t need a counter on each page. Counters are not only unimpressive, they make you look like an amateur. Do you see a counter on any page at

#counters #html #web design

Sweet blueberry turnovers! All of a sudden I’m getting thousands — yes, thousands! — of hits from the Kansas State Fan Message Boards. I cannot imagine why. I can’t find any link to me there either. So. If you’re a Kansas State fan, please explain.

#links #seo

Primes and Quotes

More good stuff from A List Apart: The Trouble With EM ‘n EN. My reading list ( and things to fix on my site) runneth over.

#css #web design

Impact the Itch

Someone commented on my mini-rant that the words “itch” and “impact” are not verbs. The reader seemed to suggest that the appearance of these words in “a dictionary” as verbs is a viable argument for them being accepted that way. My reply: There are many words in “the dictionary” that are not words. You cannot

#english #grammar #language #rants

Forgetfulness

I just heard US Poet Laureate Billy Collins read this poem on A Prairie Home Companion. I loved it so much that I decided to re-print it here. ForgetfulnessThe name of the author is the first to gofollowed obediently by the title, the plot,the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novelwhich suddenly becomes one you have never

#poetry

Relative Widths and CSS

“I’d love a proportional-width relative-positioning design for my weblog, but I’m too afraid of cross-browser compatability issues. I don’t want to spend more than a weekend figuring out how to get two columns to work in three browsers.” – Dan Sanderson I have to agree with Dan’s sentiment here. It’s a bear to get relative

#browsers #css #html #web design

Ping Weblogs.com

Here is a short list of web sites that I really wish would ping weblogs.com so I could properly use Dan Sanderson’s blogtracker to follow their antics:Romenesko’s Obscure Store and Reading Room, Davezilla, Lines and Splines, dooce, fishrush, Wil, microcontentnews, Fiendish Thingy, What’s New, Pussycat?, ljonn.com, dan, and bry

#blogging #lists #pings